Team Flaccid

[osmosis21]

Hi Terry, Are you still involved with Team Flaccid? Can you discuss what happens with the team and how players are helped?
thanks
Os

[LawrenceMak]

Terry is still heavily involved in anything that Team Flaccid does since he is one of the founders.

The team started as just the two of us and has since grown. Help usually comes in the form of hand analysis via e-mail or playing together live and discussing the hands afterwards. (We don't soft-play)

I highly recommend anyone serious about playing poker to find a similar support group that share similar interests or goals.

Much of the help comes from non-tactical discussion, including things like bank-roll, tilt and even how the poker effects family-life and work-life balance. We have found this most helpful because often loved ones just "don't get it" and its hard to keep going with something you love if no one is there to support you.


Lawrence
LHE: winning short-handed strategies

[toom]

How did you expand the team beyond the original two? Was it just word-of-mouth?

I started to get something going in my area last summer. I was going to try to build up a club of 200 or so members so we could get weekly games going with maybe 50 or more for tournaments, et cetera (strictly no-rake and legal was the idea). Then I got busy with work and quit trying (although I did get a few home game invites out of the effort).

I'd love to be able to meet weekly with people to discuss things like you mentioned.

I don't play SH LHE, but based on the compliments of osmosis (who I respect as a good player), I'll put the book on my list for the future.

[TerryBorer]

Hi toom -

Trying to build a community in your area sounds like a good idea. It also sounds like a lot of work as you say. I played in a strong weekly game for a few years and had a blast. Only once did I drink a whole bottle of Amaretto (so they tell me anyways) and wake up with fuzzy memories and an empty wallet.

For us, we gradually started to work with people that heard about through word of mouth. A friend of a friend of a friend happened to be an outstanding high-limit short-handed specialist. Since he was full-time but only playing 20-30 hours a week he had time to kill and agreed to be a reviewer for the technical chapters of our book. This really helped the book and us and I think we contributed to his game as well.

So mostly "Team Flaccid" is through friends and not anything formal. I think the name throws people off a bit (except for one guy who thought is was "team placid"). We explain how it relates to how our chips used to look at the table, but they still think it is some kind of support group.

-- Terry